Site Terms
I’m a reasonable kind of guy, so let’s make this simple.
The short version is this: Play nice, attribute, and be awesome.
Here’s the longer version:
Content policy:
All content is owned and copyright rejectreality.net.
The content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license.
This means:
You can copy, distribute and transmit the work under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
My minimum attribution requirement is a link back to rejectreality.net, preferably to the blog post or image page where you obtained the content.
As an optional thing, I’d love an email each time you use this license so I can see what you’re making with it. This earns you extra awesome points.
Other licenses are available if your needs fall outside the above Creative Commons license. Email me to discuss your requirements.
Comments and contact policy:
Emails, comments, trackbacks and pingbacks are welcome.
Awesome emails, comments, trackbacks and pingbacks are not only welcome, but encouraged. The more awesome you make it, the more likely it will be held up as a beacon for intelligence on the internet, but will also probably save unicorns from extinction. Ergo, brains are good.
Bad emails, comments, trackbacks and pingbacks will be used for giggle fodder. I reserve the right to republish these in the name of making the general population’s day better.
Spam of any sort will not be tolerated.
Image Hotlinking:
“Hotlinking” (also called “hot linking”, “leeching”, and “bandwidth theft”) is a term referring to when a web page of one website owner is direct linking to the images or other multimedia files on the web host of another website owner (usually without permission, thus stealing bandwidth). This not only causes the other person to pay for the bandwidth of the hotlinked file, but often is intellectual property theft.
Some disadvantages of hot linking worth considering are that the webpage generally loads slower when you link to images stored on a different web hosting server than the webpage is hosted on, and the owner of the image has full control to disable hotlinking, or delete, rename, or worse yet, do a “switcheroo” (i.e., switching the file name to be another image which is sure to cause the hotlinker embarrassment) of the hot-linked image.
Hotlinking is really bad form. Don’t do it.
If you hotlink images (and especially if you are in violation of the license), expect to have the image messed with. Any issues or humiliation experienced by a visit from Angry Cat is entirely your own problem.
Pretty simple, eh?